The Canadian Institute of Planners, the national voice of Canada's planning profession, has joined those calling on the federal government to reconsider the site for the planned Memorial to the Victims of Communism.

Opposition to the Memorial to the Victims of Communism widened Tuesday as Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar called on the government to move it to a different location and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson described it as a "blight" on its Wellington Street site.

The Canadian government is condemning a move by the Palestinian Authority to join the International Criminal Code (ICC) in a bid to eventually launch war-crimes prosecutions against Israel. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the action taken by Palestinians this week is a “concerning and dangerous development.”